More than two thirds of Florida adults consider climate change a threat to future generations and say state and local governments should do more to address it, according to a poll released Monday by Florida Atlantic University.
The poll found 68 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that climate change “has them concerned about the well-being of future generations in Florida,” according to a news release from the university. Just 28 percent said state, county and city governments were doing enough to address it. source
It’s not a self-inflicted wound. I am so tired of this misinformation for the sake of pithy humor. Recognize oppression when you see it or you are on the side of fascism.
Yet they’re still voting for Republicans. They’re enabled this.
Yes, because decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, lobbying, political corruption and misinformation campaigns directed toward one of the most educationally underserved states has absolutely no effect on elections.
What you are doing is usually termed victim blaming, so careful.
Be careful? Ease off the drama my man.
77 percent voter turnout and 51 percent voted for Trump. At some point it just becomes a matter of infantalizing people.
infantalizing people.
Did you miss
one of the most educationally underserved states
?
They’re not even victims yet.
Sadly technically not true! Look into climate gentrification. Because the housing market is prospective in nature, lower-socioeconomic communities at higher elevations more secure from climate change are being displaced by higher costs of living. It’s quite sad and just one part of the iceberg’s tip. :(
Mostly the Cubans and old folks from other states who move there for their last decade or two of life. The old folks will be dead before it’s a problem, the Cubans refuse to vote for anyone left of hitler because they hate the idea of another people’s revolution taking their ill-gotten wealth, even though todays Cuban Americans aren’t nearly as powerful as the Cubans that the revolution overthrew.
they’re still voting for Republicans
Every time I check the Florida election results its “5-4, Republicans win”. You Floridians need literally one more vote, but those stupid tankie leftists just won’t pitch in.
Floridians are still voting Red in droved. Guess something else is more important to them at the polls.
They gotta ban abortion and ‘save’ all the fetuses first so they too can experience the horrors of global warming and climate change under the watchful eye of a theocratic dictatorship.
What n happens when all the fetuses are underwater? Will they save them then, or swim to higher ground?
If I understand their thinking it’d be God who caused the flooding so it’s okay if fetuses die that way. They were probably gay fetuses anyway and their mothers were probably sinners so God drowned them like in Noah’s story.
Okay I’m done. My brain can’t handle typing anymore of that horrible bullshit.
Don’t you know fetuses float? The tide will bring them to the true believers, just like Moses on the Nile /s
Thanks for posting this. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, and voted blue-no-matter-who in every election since I was eligible to vote, as do all my friends and family. I try to help others within my sphere of influence to make good political choices, too, and those conversations can be hard. My area has been particularly red for as long as I can remember, and that has only gotten more true in recent years. It often sucks to live here but I am stuck for the foreseeable future, and so I am putting forth the effort to change what I am able.
As such, I have always found it a bit discouraging that so many seem to think that Florida is some hive-mind phenomenon, wherein every eligible person votes against their own best interests in perfect unison. I mean, a lot of them do, obviously – but the lack of empathy for the rest of us, that’s the weird part to me.
Thanks for sharing. On the behalf of the rest of the “leftist” internet I’d like to apologize.
There’s a lot of demented jokes people make about the underserved and oppressed and I try to do my part to counteract it. :)
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Yet they keep voting for the opposite. Is it tribalism or is the data wrong?
We’re all voting for the opposite, so yes tribalism.
Recognize oppression when you see it or you are on the side of fascism.
Nonsense. Florida is part of the freest and fairest democracy in the entire history of the universe. If Floridians wanted to do something about climate change, they would simply vote harder.
Hah.
i think they didn’t get your satire 🫡 my respects for the effort
You got to lay it on really thick these days. Humor isn’t dying from being woke. It’s dying from lack of subtly.
Aaaand I belive it.
They’re gonna have to build a wall to keep the water out!
I wonder if the ocean will pay for this one.
Tell it to Earth.
You might want to build one to keep the Floridians in
That always goes well
*swell
I mean, there’s been some failures, but well-built levees have been super helpful for thousands of years…
And then they’re going to have to drive a Chevy there to check if it’s dry…
As long as they bring some whiskey and rye
Discussing imminent mortality is optional, though. Depends on the vibe at the time.
I think if you’re in Florida, sell now and get out (sucks for whoever’s willing to buy). Not just the parts that will be submerged, get out of the whole place because the policies/insurance/laws/taxes are going to go absolutely nuts for the whole state.
I hear Aquaman is ready to scoop up all of those underwater properties!
My aunt and uncle are buying a house there this year now that the kids are out of the house. We’re already only an hour away from the gulf, not sure what else they’re trying to find.
The poster who posted this is not very smart and is just pushing outrage, like they always do.
Read the graphic. The light blue is 5m (over 16 feet) and the other blue is 10m (over 32 feet). The estimate rise is about 2 feet in 2100. So not even the first area.
I hate to downplay the threat of climate change, because it is the biggest existential risk we’ve ever faced, but people like the OP do a disservice to the risk by posting these intentionally misleading graphics. And pushing things like “omg you have to be dumb to buy a place in Florida” (at least based on this graphic) is something that will likely backfire too.
It’s the same dumb shit that conservatives use to claim that it isn’t an issue because rich people are buying beach front property.
They’ll blame democrats of course
Well of course the rich will leave, then even with the gerrymandering Dems or even progressives can take control, just in time to be blamed like Biden for Trump’s tax hikes (the cuts were permanent for the rich and temporary followed by hikes for us plebs).
Shouting “Florida’s gone woke!” from the rooftops
More like the life rafts.
Two places that aren’t underwater
Don’t worry, all those people who are going to lose their homes to raising ocean waters can just sell their property.
I hear Aquaman is looking to boost his real estate portfolio.
I hear Superman can stop California losing its current coastline by flying the opposite direction the Earth is turning really fast.
Well that’s it then, climate change solved!
Anybody that owns coastal property at this point deserves to lose it. We’ve known climate change has been coming for decades now, and if they haven’t sold by now they’re fools.
Unfortunately that will flood many of the major cities in Florida, leaving it politically redder…
You really think all those silver hairs will stay. They will infest alabama and it will barely change a shade.
Gulf Shores will be long gone by then too, it’s gonna be some new beach near fucking Dothan
The people will float to the top so there will be a delicious blue creame skin to the state.
Sea level rise of 5 meters isn’t happening in any of our lifetimes. Don’t get me wrong, climate change and its resulting sea level rise are very very real, but even the most dire forecasts don’t predict a 5 meter sea level rise in the next 100 years. Models of a high emissions scenario has the rise “only” going up 3.9 meters 126 years from now
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level
A permanent rise, yes, but storm surges and stuff will make Miami uninhabitable far sooner than that.
Miami elevation is 6 feet? Something like that?
True, good point, but the general idea still stands. It’s gonna be (I’m totally guessing here) like at least another 70 years before sea level rise + storm flooding events will make inland areas uninhabitable
It’ll be within the next ten years that it’ll get hit by a Katrina-like event.
The models the ICC accepted were all “in line with historical data”. So much so that the “Hot Model Problem” became a known thing, models predicting climate change that were too hot for the ICC to accept.
Our models are conservative, likely by a good margin.
If you read the link i posted you’ll see the numbers i quoted are already based on the worst case scenario of prediction ranges, rather than the scenario currently considered most likely. And your claim about a katrina level event happening there seems to be pulled out of nowhere, do you have a source citation for that prediction?
Hurricanes and storms means that you don’t need to wait for the full amount of sea level rise. Insurance is already skyrocketing because of the damage.
Insurance? That has already left the state of Florida.
Sea level rise of 5 meters isn’t happening in any of our lifetimes.
Report: 500K South Florida Homes at Risk of Storm Surge
The newly released report highlights the Miami metro area’s mass exposure to coastal flooding risk from hurricanes.
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Often the deadliest element of a hurricane, surge waters from strong storms can rise 15 feet or more above the ordinary sea level, enveloping streets and buildings in coastal areas.
The report found that roughly 7.7 million homes in hurricane-exposed regions in the U.S. are susceptible to storm surge flooding.
I mean, that’s interesting info, but none of it refutes what i said
storms can rise 15 feet or more above the ordinary sea level
Storm surge levels isn’t the same thing as sea level.
Technically correct, but ultimately irrelevant. Storm surge renders properties below the point of sea-rise height uninhabitable. The fact that its temporary doesn’t mitigate the long-term destructive impact it inflicts.
Not irrelevant, it very much depends on the frequency and severity.
KatrinaSandy flooded NYC massively, but it’s still extremely inhabited.Katrina flooded NYC massively
I’m sorry, what?
I’m sure that’s comforting to the economically underserved that have barriers to contingency plans.
This can all be avoided with a pallet of paper towels and a sharpie.
Just circle the area of the map where you want the climate change to go.
Then plant all the paper towels in a cool, moist, & bright environment. By the next morning, Hillary Clinton will have stolen all your guns.
So, which backwater town will become the next big harbor City?
That’s the next real estate boom, better get in early
Better build it on pontoons.
If we had a functioning government in the US, this could be less of a problem. I wonder how we get one of those?
Vote out Republicans at every level of government.
Checking the election results and they say “5-4 Republicans win”
They’re all Republicans, about half of them are fucking insane. The other half just wants to run a nice conservative government. They hate each other and will throw any number of us to the wolves in their spite for each other.
Vote for the radical leftists the Republicans have been screaming about.
When another milquetoast moderate wins anyway, consider alternatives.
Is there other red in USSA? You know, communists.
I mean Floridians could start mitigating the inevitable effects of climate change themselves. It’s a lot easier to get a functioning state government, they’d just have to vote for Democrats.
The word “just” there is pulling a lot of weight.
I wonder where the Florida refugees will go…
If we get the right
personrabbit, they won’t have anywhere to go.
Well, it won’t be easy for Florida to go hang with Hawaii and California.
Just nuke the state border and tow it through the Panama canal!
tow it through the Panama canal!
I coughed hard
Well, hopefully it’s not the Rona. Feel better soon fam!
Current models predict that climate displaced people in the US generally are all going to begin moving towards the Great Lakes as the least severely impacted parts of the country. Apparently to Wisconsin in particular since it’s less already inhabited than the rest of the region.
SHHHHHHH!
It gets very cold and snowy in the winters but the northern middle west dodge most of the serious tornadoes to the west and south, no significant risk for hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. Plus a decent source of fresh water if we can keep it clean and not let corpos take it all for free. And not so close to coastal areas to flood or mountains trapping heat.
Right: https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
Nowhere is really safe from climate change, but if you look at those maps, the worst stuff misses the upper Midwest. Which isn’t a real benefit either; it means taking on a lot of displaced climate refugees.
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Assuming it’s still there, Disney World. Kinda surprised they haven’t tried to move it elsewhere by now tbh.
Disney would be rolling in his grave, he wanted walkable cities and rail.
Anyone on the florida coast knows it’s not sea rise alone that will get you.
It’s hurricanes.
I’m not on the coast, but let me tell you, the existential dread the last few seasons was real (and proven right with Ian), much less this upcoming season.
Another underappreciated point: most people who live right on the coast now are snowbirds in giant mansions, who can very much afford to lose their vacation home to a hurricane. They don’t even live there most of the time.
I have a friend from high school who had a house collapse on her during Hurricane Ivan and she’s on disability for life now.
And that was before the ocean was anywhere near as hot as it is now.
There’s been talk about a category 6.
Every year hurricane season starts earlier, they’re bigger, and they go up the coast further.
To be fair, they always seem to hit certainl places in certain months. West coast seems to mostly be later season, around the “I” storms.
But yeah, not looking forward to this season.
The fact that the insurance industry is practically abandoning Florida is a real indicator, despite the noise around it being a hoax.
We’re just about at the “It exists but it’s too late to do anything about it” stage.
What’s darkly amusing is how climate change is still too “politically sensitive” to talk about, like it’s some big controversial moral argument. Even weather guys talking about hurricane season awkwardly dance around it.
I understand why, I have family that still thinks its all an anti christian hoax… but still.
Once green energy starts making money, things will change. Something amazing is happening in almost the least likely place.
Wyoming.
https://youtu.be/MXVb4-8nHb8?si=gDCZQhXMGWKCJiiD
Beau does great videos, don’t let his appearance and beard fool you.
Sure, you’ve got alligators swimming up to your house now, but just remember that for a brief, shining moment . . . profit was made.
Florida: I was in the pool!
Sucks that key west is there. I hate Florida but i love key west.
